tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171752752024-03-14T12:05:37.012+00:00Threading thoughts Threading thoughts ... on figuring it all out ...Olga Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.comBlogger377125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17175275.post-26844524202084139812020-11-18T15:12:00.000+00:002020-11-18T15:12:56.656+00:00<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The final journey</span> </h1><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4xV1Si4VK0_JJkLfk3KH1FwsXm06uyb5LkwllU0KmLRg7yFMx90nsWYjPAMI69pYmLeUmOuLhOHB824eavcvUcfdMXkmQ983FU3kZniRq1NtaU0FZ2EwrTa4x9SX-GC8xljLJRg/s1200/20090813-DSC_0102.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1096" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4xV1Si4VK0_JJkLfk3KH1FwsXm06uyb5LkwllU0KmLRg7yFMx90nsWYjPAMI69pYmLeUmOuLhOHB824eavcvUcfdMXkmQ983FU3kZniRq1NtaU0FZ2EwrTa4x9SX-GC8xljLJRg/w458-h502/20090813-DSC_0102.jpg" width="458" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">For anyone still reading this blog, my dear talented wife succumbed to cancer 12 months ago. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Olga had been busy in her final years and there was a pile of work that hadn't been photographed and added to her website. I've now updated the website with all the final work, for anyone who appreciated her art. Do please check it out.</span></p>Nigel Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15002959476466863090noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17175275.post-58013927350570953102019-09-12T15:29:00.000+01:002019-09-12T15:29:14.921+01:00Good luck in all shapes<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This summer I was determined to take my stitching outdoors more. This is such a pleasure when it works well, but can be an incredible palaver to organise. I had tracked down a product made by <a href="http://www.travel-lines-london.co.uk/tote-bags.html">Margaret Cooter</a>: perhaps I could commission a cross-body version of her Travel Lines Tote which would be just right for all the gubbins I wanted to take down the garden with me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I commissioned one from Margaret based on the Circle Line, which is the underground line I used by far the most in my London years. How I looked forward to receiving my bag, and to spending more time in the garden. However, it is surprising how much a life can change over just part of a season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is interesting that that need for the commissioned tote bag remained. Now, the need for a neat cross-body bag is as a soft but secure container for my syringe driver, the essential delivery mechanism for all my palliative care needs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Co-incidentally also, Margaret asked that payment be made to <i><a href="https://www.msf.org.uk/?gclsrc=aw.ds&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIzOinyrzL5AIVhbTtCh3YcgvjEAAYASAAEgIYjPD_BwE">Medecins Sans Frontiers</a></i>. It is great that something hand made, hand stitched, soft, companionable, is making lovely links. Thank you Margaret.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Olga Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17175275.post-61470766174583274862019-09-02T11:28:00.000+01:002019-09-02T11:28:01.105+01:00Disappointment, delight, and still no definite diagnosis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.juliespeed.com/">Julie Speed</a>: <i>Eyes to see</i> (<a href="https://vasari21.com/julie-speed/">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After much hospital to and fro, latterly to have a needle biopsy (don't ask!) which should bring a definitive answer this week or next, I am still stuck with my <a href="https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/coping/physically/fluid-abdomen-ascites/about">ascites</a>, discomfort, exhaustion, not being able to eat much, and with intermittent sharp pain, and of course worry. The thinking so far is that I have bowel cancer spread around to other organs, inoperable, and am to start chemotherapy as soon as they have pinned down exactly what's what so that they can put together the appropriate cocktail of drugs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Usually someone who immediately starts thinking about possible solutions to any problem, I must admit myself to be somewhat stumped right now. But although I cannot concentrate on art books, or serious study, I can at least read novels.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I decided to try <a href="http://www.joanne-harris.co.uk/about/">Joanne Harris</a>' quartet of <i>Chocolat</i> titles. I had never read anything of hers, but had heard her speak on the radio. Unfortunately I was disappointed. I especially disliked <i>The Lolipop Shoes</i> which I found to be a horror story. But then I also am not especially enamoured of chocolate. They were a bit too sweet and sticky for me. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's also the downside of binge reading. I stuck with the four titles, one after the other, when all the little things which irritate are exaggerated. On the other hand, I have similarly been binge reading <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngaio_Marsh">Ngaio Marsh</a>, and have been thoroughly delighted.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although the detective protagonist Chief Inspector Alleyn remains constant, his murder investigations are set in different places, even in different countries, or even on board ship. Marsh is excellent at character, dialogue, and description as well as brilliant with story. I dread running out of her novels because they provide me with such excellent distraction.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have run out of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tey">Josephine Tey</a> mysteries, but <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Upson">Nicola Upson</a> has written a series of novels with Tey as the protagonist, and a new one is due out later this year.</span>Olga Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17175275.post-11094578178847897462019-08-16T19:03:00.001+01:002019-08-16T19:07:22.356+01:00Aesthetic deficit<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Recently I have been visiting hospital to undergo tests. I have dreaded going back to the hospital after I spent so much time there some years ago when my mother was ill. Now the horrid experience of being poked and prodded and not yet definitively diagnosed is mine - and in such thoroughly depressing surroundings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Why are some hospitals so disgracefully devoid of anything visually comforting or uplifting? It is bad enough for those of us who are temporarily unwell, but how awful for those who are over worked and under paid spending all their working days in these surroundings. Because of financial shortages the places are not only far from uplifting, but generally give a strong impression of not being cared for. Only the care of the staff towards the patients is generous.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At present I am unable to do much other than read distracting novels (I read Denise Mina's <i>Conviction</i>, and am working my way through Ngaio Marsh's Inspector Alleyn novels.) So today I started distracting myself with thoughts about what kind of art I would like to see on hospital walls.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Work which is positive and pleasant in appearance would of course be desirable, but I think that I personally would want something that also engages curiosity and thought, just as I prefer to read novels which are well written.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of course because everyone has different aesthetic taste, I can see why some hospitals go for still life paintings. But the first example I thought of was something by the Mark Boyle family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(<a href="https://barnabycolmanphotography.wordpress.com/2016/09/28/boyle-family-research/">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I have encountered his work I was fascinated by the large reproductions of random parts of the world. Such a size I think would tend to take minds off personal problems for a short time at least, rather than sitting in increasing dread anticipation. But maybe this would be too close to the actual surroundings! That especially so if the story behind the artwork is not explained.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I do think that size is important. The image must demand attention to distract. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/jeff-wall-2359">image from here</a>)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jeff Wall's photograph inspired by Hokusai does that, and even if you don't know the original there is so much to attract, intrigue, and amuse. I also think that keeping the mind alert is a good idea, because as I have found, it is so easy simply to deal with the situation simply by shutting oneself down.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Perhaps large reproductions of Hokusai prints, or something similarly human, busy, and with a touch of humour. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What do you think? </span>Olga Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17175275.post-53890038948763677832019-07-24T18:51:00.000+01:002019-07-24T18:54:15.115+01:00A great coincidence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Edvard Munch: <i>The Kiss IV</i> (<a href="https://www.moma.org/collection/works/60565">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm lucky that this year there just so happen to be three exhibitions on at the same time covering artists of interest to me. The three artists are from that fascinating melting-pot of an era: belle-epoque into modernism the end of the 19th century into the 20th, and all three artists were influenced by having been in Paris, though not French themselves. <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/munch.aspx">Munch</a>, <a href="https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/helene-schjerfbeck">Schjerfbeck</a>, and <a href="https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/felix-vallotton">Vallotton</a> are all individual artists, on the edge of movements, but so connected with what was going on in Paris that they shine a light on it all as well as being interesting in themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Edvard Munch: Theatre Programme for Ibsen's play <i>Jean Gabriel Borkman</i> (<a href="https://www.moma.org/collection/works/64994">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of course aware of <i>The Scream</i> and a few other works, I did not otherwise know much about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Munch">Edvard Munch</a>. <a href="https://www.speedyhen.com/Product/Giulia-Bartrum/Edvard-Munch-love-and-angst/23399681">Edvard Munch, Love and Angst</a> is the catalogue of the British Museum exhibition, and a fascinating read. I was interested to read about his life and about the psychology behind the angst-ridden aspects of his work, and of prevailing attitudes to psychology in wider society at the time. It is also interesting to read of his illustrative work, especially with regard to theatre programmes, and how popular fellow Norwegian playwright <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Ibsen">Ibsen</a> was in Paris at the time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His wood prints are so interesting, their immediacy exciting my curiosity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Helene Schjerfbeck: <i>Self portrait 1912</i> (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jul/21/helene-schjerfbeck-royal-academy-arts-review">image from here - with review</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene_Schjerfbeck">Helene Schjerfbeck</a>'s still figures appeal greatly to me, and I love her self portraits. She was Finnish, but not only spent time in Paris but also in St Ives. I regret that I had not known her work before now, but have much enjoyed reading the <a href="https://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/helen-schjerfbeck-hb">Royal Academy exhibition catalogue</a>, and finding out so much about her and her works now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Felix Vallotton: <i>The Lie</i> (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jul/07/felix-vallotton-painter-of-disquiet-royal-academy-london-review">image from here - and review</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now I am deep into <a href="https://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/felix-vallotton-hardback-catalogue">the catalogue of the third exhibition</a>, of the work of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Vallotton">Felix Vallotton</a>. As a great fan of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Vuillard">Vuillard</a>'s work I knew of Vallotton's paintings and some of his prints. I love the enigmatic quality in his paintings, and their dramatic composition. His use of colour is interesting - indeed, the work of all three artists bring lots of questions about use of colour to mind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Felix Vallotton: <i>Money</i> (<a href="https://www.apollo-magazine.com/felix-vallotton-royal-academy-arts-london/">image from here - and review</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I enjoy Vallotton's use of black as a colour in his prints too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is such a joy to have three perspectives on an interesting period of art.</span>Olga Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17175275.post-91032370575727490342019-07-16T10:51:00.001+01:002019-07-16T10:51:49.695+01:00Lazin' on a sunny afternoon ... in the summertime ...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />Olga Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17175275.post-55234072669272066052019-07-10T10:24:00.004+01:002019-07-10T11:46:36.186+01:00Current reading awakens memories<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Natalia Goncharova: <i>Three Young Women</i> (<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/goncharova-three-young-women-n06193">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These days art exhibition catalogues seem to dominate my serious reading. At present it's <a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/natalia-goncharova">Natalia Goncharova - an exhibition on at Tate Modern</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I first encountered this artist in a postcard of the above image. When I started working in London in the early 1970s I was a frequent visitor to museums and galleries where there was a wide range of postcards of the collections available. Not having the means to purchase magazines and books in those days, I did binge on postcards which I would stick up on my walls at work. The above was one of those, but I did not know anything about the artist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Natalia Goncharova: <i>Hay cutting</i> (</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.rusclothing.com/blog/folk-art-of-natalia-goncharova/">image from here</a>)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now I am discovering all about her through <a href="https://shop.tate.org.uk/natalia-goncharova-exhibition-book/22504.html">the splendid catalogue</a>. So many of her paintings, unlike the one at the top, remind me of my early childhood summers in northern Greece and the views in the '50s of farming activity in the landscapes we passed with the train across Europe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Natalia Goncharova: <i>Linen</i> (<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/natalia-goncharova-1186">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The religious paintings chime with the icons which surrounded me, and the lovely painting immediately above reminds me of the laundry near our flat where to my wide-eyed childish fascination they used irons just like the one pictured. When I was about four, when I was the only child in the whole extended family, there were many aunts alive, and we would go for glorious picnics when the days seemed to stretch forever. I find that Goncharova's paintings chime with my memories of those times. This is especially true of the image below which is from <a href="http://a-place-called-space.blogspot.com/2019/07/natalia-goncharova.html">Eirene's blog A Place Called Space and her post on the Natalia Goncharova exhibition at the Tate</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Natalia Goncharova: <i>Apelsinia</i> (<a href="http://a-place-called-space.blogspot.com/2019/07/natalia-goncharova.html">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This catalogue is therefore not only full of information but also a lovely reminder of a most enjoyable time in my life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Olga Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17175275.post-58069269642295192482019-07-05T11:27:00.000+01:002019-07-05T11:27:14.409+01:00The giants we are<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was excited when I found out that the <a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search%5Bquery%5D=thomas+houseago&search%5Bsize%5D=Any&search%5Btype%5D=All&search%5Bgallery%5D=courtyard&search%5Bprice_min%5D=No+min&search%5Bprice_max%5D=No+max&search%5Bonline_only%5D=0&button=">courtyard sculpture for this year's RA Summer Exhibition</a> was to be by <a href="https://gagosian.com/artists/thomas-houseago/">Thomas Houseago</a>. His figurative work has struck me as so fresh, of our condition today, as well as giving a nod to the past. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is always invigorating to find artists who take existing ideas and subjects and through rendering those ideas in their own style add value, give another perspective. Thus the ideas grow and our thinking is expanded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The figures are monumental, and yet vulnerable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are accumulations, and so much more than the sum of their parts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Overall this year's Summer Exhibition was successful for me. I saw the work of three powerful artists: Turrell, Rego, and Houseago, which would have been reward enough itself. But I also saw many works which I found attractive and gave me pleasure.</span>Olga Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17175275.post-71526382792390666012019-07-04T08:42:00.000+01:002019-07-04T08:42:08.417+01:00Outstanding<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">James Turrell: <i>Mors - Somnus (07) Medium Diamond Glass </i>(<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/james-turrell-hon-ra/723">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One work in the <a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019">RA Summer Exhibition</a> that was worth the visit alone for me was <a href="http://jamesturrell.com/">James Turrell</a>'s light piece in a quiet cool dim room. The diamond square of light changes colour ever so gradually, and not an even flat colour. Subtle tones are spread across the whole square, radiating from its centre. The square is set in a white wall, not black as shown above. Except that it does not look white: as the colour changes in the square its subtleties are signalled first in what you apparently see of the opposing colours in the surrounding wall. Those of you who typed on the original word processors will remember that the bilious green text would conjure up red letters when looking away or shutting eyes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This piece of Turrell's - as so many of his - is extraordinary colour work. This is where Mondrian was leading. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This work was compulsive viewing, entrancing, thought-provoking, and so joyous. This is an artist who makes me look at the world again and again, and think about what I am seeing. </span>Olga Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17175275.post-58382018948996282442019-07-03T09:53:00.000+01:002019-07-03T09:53:51.705+01:00Interesting impressions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">G.W. Bot:<i> Lake Mungo Glyphs - A Portrait</i> (<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/gw-bot/874">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Prints are everywhere in the <a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019">RA Summer Exhibition</a>. There were so many I liked, but a few in particular made a lasting impression. I was delighted to see two by the Australian printmaker <a href="https://www.gwbot.net/about">G.W. Bot</a>, whose work inspires me in the sense that I am impelled to take myself to my lino-cutting desk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">G.W. Bot: <i>Lake Mungo Glyphs - Mother </i>(<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/gw-bot/872">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of all of <a href="https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/peter-freeth-ra">Peter Freeth</a>'s works this one caught my imagination most.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Peter Freeth: <i>Over the wall</i> (<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/peter-freeth-ra/1104">image from here</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Cornelia Parker: <i>Deception glass</i> (<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/cornelia-parker-ra/430">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://alancristea-web-g9.artlogic.net/exhibitions/209/?_cmspreview=1">Cornelia Parker's prints of glasses intrigue me</a>, as did <a href="http://lizrideal.com/">Liz Rideal</a>'s print on fabric:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Liz Rideal: <i>Temple of Jove Anxur, Terracina</i> (<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/liz-rideal/719">image from here</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Banksy: <i>KEEP OU</i> (<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/banksy/39">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After so many decades of looking at images, pictures, paintings, what is it that catches my eye? Often it is familiarity - or perhaps lack of familiarity. Certainly one aspect which holds my eye is composition. It does not have to be drama, but there needs to be a reward of some kind. The image must make me think - and think beyond the question of how it was made. For me content is queen and must definitely rule over technique. This is easier for me with painting because I don't paint. Content is still supreme although more difficult with prints as I am familiar with the techniques, and that can intrigue even if the image is not satisfactory to me. This is all personal preference needless to say.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Glen Onwin: <i>Shades of Darkness - Light and Colour (Goethe's Theories) Blue, Red, Yellow. Earths Major Cycles</i> (<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/glen-onwin/738">image and title from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Individual works are easily overlooked at the RA Summer Exhibition, and one reason why <a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/galleries/gallery-IV">Gallery IV</a> was my favourite is that the hang was relatively sparse. Works had room to breathe and be themselves. <a href="http://www.onwin.co.uk/site/Home.html">Glen Onwin</a>'s framed pigments (above) were arresting, being the physical embodiment of colour; pigment which was gradually accumulating at the base of each frame.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">David Remfry: <i>Chandelirium</i> (<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/david-remfry-ra/476">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I very much enjoy being surprised to find that a work which attracts my eye is by an artist who is familiar, but in this case unfamiliar. This was my delight in seeing <a href="https://www.davidremfry.com/">David Remfry</a>'s painting above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Stephen Chambers: <i>Portrait of Agatha Roman</i> (<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/stephen-chambers-ra/1541">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Portraits can be so interesting, whether the subject is known or not. Stephen Chambers' <i>Portrait of Agatha Roman</i> is perhaps from his <a href="https://www.stephenchambers.com/paintings/the-court-of-redonda/">Court of Redonda series</a>, and she intrigued me additionally because her hands seemed to have a separate life of their own.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sonia Lawson: <i>Homage to Courbet </i>(<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/sonia-lawson-ra/1366">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another portrait which intrigued me was <a href="http://www.sonialawson.co.uk/2000.htm">Sonia Lawson</a>'s <i>Homage to Courbet</i>, which is so different from <a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-probing-gustave-courbets-inner-thoughts-the-desperate-man">Courbet's own self portrait</a> - as well as being different from the cabinet-of-curiosities style of Lawson's with which I have been familiar of recent years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Tony Bevan: <i>Self Portrait</i> (<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/tony-bevan-ra/1417">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A self portrait which really caught my eye near the end of the exhibition struck a philosophical note - '<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito,_ergo_sum">I think, therefore I am</a></i>'. <a href="http://www.tonybevan.com/Tony_Bevan_gallery.html">Tony Bevan</a> has produced several self portraits, and this is not quite a brain, but it caught my imagination.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I liked many other paintings, but these above held my attention for more than the passing pleasurable moment.</span>Olga Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17175275.post-68556975786084165712019-07-01T12:08:00.001+01:002019-07-01T12:10:42.304+01:00More of the same<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Paula Rego: <i>Death of the Virgin</i> (<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/dame-paula-rego-ra/1510">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In an exhibition like the <a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019">Royal Academy Summer Exhibition</a> it is inevitable to encounter works by familiar artists, either by Academicians themselves, or Honorary Academicians, or by familiar invited artists. Often the reaction is - oh, there's another one by so-and-so, and the feeling is of a so-what-ish kind. Of course this doesn't mean that the work is not good; simply that a previous example struck a more positive response. Indeed I had that reaction to the <a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/anselm-kiefer-hon-ra/194">Anselm Kiefer painting in this year's exhibition</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Paula Rego: <i>Agony in the Garden</i> (<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/dame-paula-rego-ra/958">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Four paintings by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Rego">Paula Rego</a>, however, did affect me greatly, despite my having seen so many of her similar works before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Paula Rego: <i>Deposition</i> (<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/dame-paula-rego-ra/959">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What hits me first is the substance. They not only are full of dimension, the paintings carry so much within them. The subtle use of materials gives on the one hand a quality of fabric in the dresses that I can feel: a stiffness of stuff, as if those dresses are the armour, support for the tender flesh within them. And on the other, the delicate but firm pencil lines outlining such as the ears, the curls of loose hair signal that tenderness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Paula Rego: <i>The Visitation</i> (<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/dame-paula-rego-ra/1509">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is so much here that I looked and looked for some considerable time, and felt so many reactions from exhilaration through joy to disquiet. For me these four are in a class of their own, so I shall cover the other paintings which drew my attention in a separate post.</span>Olga Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17175275.post-38764632201790020642019-06-30T16:15:00.002+01:002019-06-30T18:02:03.436+01:00Starting in the courtyard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Thomas Houseago: <i>Untitled (Red Man)</i> (<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/thomas-houseago/6">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This year's <a href="https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/summer-exhibition-2019?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjoH6zayR4wIVRLHtCh1z0wtDEAAYAiAAEgI0yvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds">RA Summer Exhibition</a> had yet again presented something different. For me one outstanding positive was the number of sculptures which delighted, starting with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Houseago">Thomas Houseago</a>'s work <a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/galleries/courtyard">in the courtyard</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The main lift was not working today, and so I was escorted through the labyrinthine corridors backstage to a staff lift to get to the main exhibition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Marcus Harvey: <i>Napoleon Invictus</i> (<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/marcus-harvey/163">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first large room, <a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/galleries/gallery-III">Gallery III</a>, is mostly full of paintings, but on a half-wall of their own are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Harvey">Marcus Harvey</a>'s pieces, two busts <i>Napoleon Invictus</i> and <i>Full Nelson</i> either side of his painting <i><a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/marcus-harvey/164">Victory</a></i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Marcus Harvey: <i>Full Nelson</i> (<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/marcus-harvey/165">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This trio benefited greatly from their virtual isolation. I found that the rest of the room looked good as a whole, but that nothing else leapt out for my attention. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Thomas Schutte: <i>Mann Ohne Gesicht</i> (<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/thomas-schutte/523">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The next sculpture which captured my attention was by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sch%C3%BCtte">Thomas Schutte</a>, entitled Man without face. The stance of the man in shallow water was enough to draw me to look closer, then I saw that his face had been cut off, and that this was in his right hand. I found this to be a quiet, powerful statement.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/galleries/gallery-IV">Room IV</a>, hung this year by <a href="https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/barbara-rae-ra">Barbara Rae</a>, was my favourite room as a whole. I enjoyed more individual pieces of work in here as well as the look of the whole. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">David Mach <i>Easy tiger</i> (<a href="https://twitter.com/Alan_Measles/status/1134204537416355840">image from here</a>)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Two sculptures caught my attention - one of which certainly could not be ignored. <a href="https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/david-mach-ra">David Mach</a>'s Tiger covered in Tunnock's teacakes foil was in this gallery when I saw it. Fun, certainly, and of course prompted the thought of how many of the teacakes he'd eaten himself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nicola Hicks: <i>Bear from dump circus</i> (<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/nicola-hicks/781">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The second sculpture appealed to me more, and had a poignancy to it as well as aesthetic attraction: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Hicks">Nicola Hicks</a>' <i>Bear from dump circus</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Tim Shaw: <i>Parliament (the voices in your head)</i> (<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/tim-shaw-ra/938">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/galleries/gallery-V?page=6">Gallery V</a> came a very close second favourite; it was hung again by Barbara Rae, this time with Hughie O'Donohue, and contained a great many interesting prints. The sculpture which I loved, however was by <a href="https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/tim-shaw-ra">Tim Shaw</a>: <i>Parliament (The voices in your head)</i>. The whole as presented is more complex than shown in the photograph. There are additional pieces of detritus: cardboard boxes, torn paper, and there is an audio tape running. I was intrigued and delighted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Janet Mullarney: <i>Dancer</i> (<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/janet-mullarney/1482">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The two other sculptures which particularly appealed to me were both figurative: one by an artist I have not encountered before, and one by an old favourite. I have not consciously met <a href="http://www.janetmullarney.com/works/2019-2/">Janet Mullarney</a>'s work previously, but a quick look at her website and her galleries <a href="http://hammondgallery.com/janet-mullarney/">here</a> and <a href="https://imma.ie/whats-on/imma-collection-then-and-now-series-janet-mullarney-exhibition/">here</a> make me want to find out more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Mimmo Paladino: <i>Untitled</i> (<a href="https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2019/artworks/mimmo-paladino-hon-ra/1570">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimmo_Paladino">Mimmo Paladino</a>, on the other hand is someone whose work I have enjoyed looking at over many years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There were other sculptures which I enjoyed, but these were the stand-out ones for me. I shall write further posts on prints and paintings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Olga Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17175275.post-80912587677637105022019-06-28T10:41:00.004+01:002019-06-28T10:41:49.511+01:00Summer hotting up<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- and I am seeking cooling greens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Olga Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17175275.post-65692093016095093352019-06-24T16:01:00.001+01:002019-06-24T16:07:18.237+01:00A ruined abbey at midsummer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Queen_of_Scots">Mary, Queen of Scots</a>' last night in Scotland was spent at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundrennan_Abbey">Dundrennan Abbey</a> in what is an idyllic spot these days. Summer weather and solitude with the attractive ruins made for a perfect morning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not long ago my camera decided to retire itself. It had served well for many years, so I replaced it with the latest model - a Canon IXUS185. One facility I'd always wanted was a better zoom, which this claims to have. And so today, the first day of our trip, I had the chance to try it out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After torrential rain in showers yesterday (always while we were in the car, thank goodness) today, appropriately for the Summer solstice, the sun shone. We went to <a href="http://castlekennedygardens.com/">Castle Kennedy gardens</a>, and then to <a href="https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/torhouse-stone-circle/">Torhouse Stone Circle</a>, then <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigtown">Wigtown</a> for an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclefechan">Ecclefechen</a> <a href="https://foodanddrink.scotsman.com/recipes/traditional-scottish-recipe-ecclefechan-tart/">tart</a> and tea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Olga Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17175275.post-32748714064956289982019-06-17T22:10:00.000+01:002019-06-17T22:10:28.110+01:00A diversity of input<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>She is known to every star</i> (<a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-15446-adam-nicolson-and-tom-hammick.aspx">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am currently enjoying such a varied selection of stimulae, but what accompanies me to my sleep are the thoughts about Wordsworth and Coleridge's poetry, their time in the Quantocks as described in my bedtime reading: <a href="https://www.speedyhen.com/Product/Adam-Nicolson/The-Making-of-Poetry--Coleridge-the-Wordsworths-and-Their-Year-of-Marvels/23424344">Adam Nicholson's book The Making of Poetry</a> - and I am especially enjoying <a href="http://www.tomhammick.com/files/The_Making_of_Poetry.pdf">Tom Hammick's accompanying woodcuts</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is a joy to have a book with frequent images which add such a rich breadth to the content of the whole. (<a href="https://www.flowersgallery.com/artists/view/tom-hammick">More about Tom Hammick's art here</a>.) It is not only the very young who enjoy pictures in books.</span>Olga Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17175275.post-81616638748830126842019-06-12T15:32:00.000+01:002019-06-12T15:36:10.346+01:00Procrastination, or expediency?<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are two projects, long planned in outline, one of which at least I should be starting now. Meantime it is the tennis season, continuing next week, and I need work in hand for that - then with Wimbledon fortnight not long after Queen's. As I do not want to rush into one of the bigger projects - also not fully decided which should be the first - and not completely comfortable with the outline plans yet, ... or is that my excuse for putting them off?... I have instead printed off three smaller pieces to work on. After all, I not only have the tennis to think of, but also a few days away for which I always like to have stitching with me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I have printed one design which has been in the pipeline for some time, but tells me it's ready now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And I have worked on another design which has been hanging around in bits, so to speak both digitally and in my mind. Suddenly today I had an idea which brought all the pieces together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The third design arose from contemplating all the greens in the garden and the countryside around at this time of year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The great thing about stitching is that it is such a facilitator of thinking and working out, so doubtless when July comes around and I am sated with tennis, I shall be ready to plunge into the bigger projects. Now of course my next decision is which of these three to start with? - I'll put off the decision until I have allocated appropriate threads.</span>Olga Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17175275.post-90873116441289268972019-06-11T21:53:00.000+01:002019-06-11T21:53:19.375+01:00Encapsulating England<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In so many ways a pointless exercise, but if I had to pick one view which epitomises England for me it is this one of Thurle Down which I took from the Ridgeway at the end of April.</span>Olga Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17175275.post-30993494367359707842019-06-07T14:25:00.002+01:002019-06-07T14:25:59.646+01:00Enjoying the tennis<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and in intervals enjoying a few rare interesting images of tennis:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Pissarro">Camille Pissarro</a>: <i>Girls playing tennis</i> (<a href="http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/painting_166198/Camille-Pissarro/Girls-Playing-Tennis,-from-%27Woodcuts-in-Line-and-Colours%27,--1891">image from here</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://yukoart.com/">Yuko Shimizo</a> (<a href="http://yukoart.com/work/tennis-magazine/">image from here</a>)</span>Olga Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17175275.post-7198217054889992232019-05-31T18:00:00.000+01:002019-05-31T18:00:52.133+01:00Current reading (in between tennis)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Mary V. Marsh: <i>Books & habits: coral necklace</i> (<a href="https://mvmarsh.com/section/232906-Prints.html">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I'm part way through <a href="https://www.speedyhen.com/Product/Giulia-Bartrum/Edvard-Munch-love-and-angst/23399681"><i>Edvard Munch: love and angst</i></a> (catalogue of the <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/munch.aspx">British Museum exhibition</a>), and waiting on the pile is <a href="https://www.speedyhen.com/Product/Eleanor-Nairne/Lee-Krasner--Living-Colour/23891863"><i>Lee Krasner: Living Colour</i></a> (catalogue of the <a href="https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2019/event/lee-krasner-living-colour">Barbican exhibition</a>).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm also about to embark on <i><a href="https://www.speedyhen.com/Product/Adam-Nicolson/The-Making-of-Poetry--Coleridge-the-Wordsworths-and-Their-Year-of-Marvels/23424344">Adam Nicolson's The Making of Poetry</a></i>, subtitled <i>Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels</i>. A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/27/the-making-poetry-coleridge-wordsworths-year-of-marvels-adam-nicolson-review">review here</a>.</span>Olga Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17175275.post-2348462780092478402019-05-29T15:10:00.000+01:002019-05-29T15:10:23.750+01:00Bad planning!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have completed the stitching of a batch of Readers, which are now ready for pressing, stretching, and mounting. But I have left myself with no stitching to hand as the French Open tennis gets more interesting. I cannot just sit and watch - the Calvinist half of my upbringing makes me uncomfortable 'wasting time' thus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's not as if I have no other things to do - apart from finishing the Readers, I have lots else in the queue - but away from the tennis. So, seeking an interim project, I uncovered an image (above) which originally had been generated for an exercise in the days of intensive development with my duodidactic friend. I had forgotten how much I liked this image - so, I've now printed it onto an A3 sheet of silk, and now have something to see me through the French Open. I shall have to think further to cover Queen's and Wimbledon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another adjustment I've made today is to my website. Folks seem to be interested in what goes into my digital collages, so I've added a <a href="https://www.olganorris.com/gallery_739531.html">Development page</a> showing the 'ingredients' of a particular work. I will change the deconstructed work from time to time.</span>Olga Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17175275.post-84235449033730328272019-05-26T16:11:00.000+01:002019-05-27T08:59:38.059+01:00Divers threads<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An exhibition showing how art can be made with thread: <a href="https://www.rheged.com/event/thread-contemporary-textiles/">Thread: Contemporary Textiles is a show on at the Rheged Centre in Cumbria until 30 June</a>. Mid-week, early in the morning it was a glorious cool space, empty except for the exhibits, and such a pleasure to stroll round. Although showing the variety of ideas which can be created with thread, the emphasis seemed to be more on those ideas rather than on the techniques of their execution. It was for me the thought-provoking qualities of the pieces which attracted - my favourite being Louise Bourgeois' embroidered handkerchief: <i>I have been to hell and back</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Louise Bourgeois: <i>I have been to hell and back</i> (<a href="http://www.artnet.com/artists/louise-bourgeois/i-have-been-to-hell-and-back-Vb0u4avag4U9d1q6c99uFA2">image from here</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Others who particularly caught my attention were</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.forest-and-found.com/">Abigail Booth</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<a href="http://pieceworkcollective.com/2017">image from here</a>)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://philipsandersontapestry.com/">Philip Sanderson</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<a href="https://philipsandersontapestry.com/">image from here</a>)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was familiar with the work of all of the above except Abigail Booth, but it was good to see unfamiliar pieces displayed so well and in such good company. They made for me a powerful exhibition.</span>Olga Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17175275.post-82541918246119765662019-05-21T19:34:00.000+01:002019-05-21T19:34:13.074+01:00Blue skies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Blue skies and picturebook clouds today. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southerness_Lighthouse">Southerness lighthouse</a> is a delightful structure. The tide was going out.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This morning, as soon as <a href="https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/threave-garden">Threave gardens</a> opened we went for a stroll round the place. The blooms were perfect in the warm clear fragrant air. Mostly birds, trainee gardeners, less than a dozen visitors, and us. Bliss.</span><br />
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